How To Grow Your Own Vegetables.

Interested In Growing Your Vegetables In Your Garden?

Just inside my house, I have a beautiful, small garden.
I love growing vegetables from childhood, and it happens to be
my favourite pastime. When I was a small boy, I used to
see my father giving directions to the gardner, regarding
sowing seeds, watering, soil preparation. Some of the things
I still remember today. At home we want to cook vegetables
which are grown in our garden.

Oh, a fully grown Brinjal, ready for frying!

How To Grow Brinjal. In our house we have some big trees at the rear part of the house, like Mango, Coconut, and Jackfruit and at the front of the house some space is kept for growing vegetables. So, one day, I thought of growing vegetables in my garden. It was winter, and in India,vegetables like Brinjal, Tomato, Carrot, Chillies, Papaya are are grown on the plains in winter. So I went to the nursery and got the seeds of the above mentioned plants. For Brinjal, Tomato, Papaya, and Chilli I had to prepare nursery beds. And for Carrot I distributed the seeds on the soil, which was nicely tilled for sowing.

And these Chillies, will put your mouth on Fire.

How To Grow Chillies

Before I take you for a tour, around the garden,
I would like to mention certain tips, regarding
nursery bed preparation.

  1. Mark a portion of the garden, 60cm long, 30cm wide.
  2. Remove about 10cm of earth from that portion, with
    the help of a spade, or some other garden equipment
    and transfer it on a place where it can be broken
    down in small particles.
  3. Use a wooden club with a long handle for crushing,
    don't forget to wear gloves and goggle, for hand
    and eye protection.
  4. Then transfer the crushed earth through a wire mesh
    or steel net, so that rocks and stones get eliminated
    in this process.
    Look at that, a gigantic size "Papaya"!
    How To Grow Papaya
  5. Then distribute this earth evenly on the place marked,
    for nursery bed.
  6. Now you nersery bed is ready for sowing of seeds.
  7. After sowing the seeds (one type of vegetable seeds,
    in one nursery bed), scatter a fine layer of sand on
    the seeds, and crushed farm yard manure on top of the
    sand layer.
  8. Water the nursery bed twice, once in the early morning,
    and once after sun-set.

Now watch the "Magic"! Within a couple of days, you will find tiny
shoots jutting out from the soil of the nursery bed. Keep the soil
moist by watering twice daily. After six weeks, you will find four to
five leaves on each plant. It is then time for "transplanting".

Certain steps should be followed while transplanting.

  1. First the bed should be tilled properly, and kept undisturbed
    for two days, and then, natural fertilisers such as rotten leaves
    and cow dung, should be mixed with the soil.
  2. For transferring the tiny plants, what I do is, I use a chisel
    to take out the plants one by one, and press the soil round the
    roots to form a mud-ball. And this makes it easier for me to transfer.
  3. Then I make holes on the bed, in horizontal lines, parallel to
    each other and place the mud-balls in the holes, and pressing it a
    little to make the plants errect.
  4. This gives a better view of the garden. Water the plants twice daily
    with a sprinkler, attached to a water hose, and wait patiently till
    they bear fruits.

Now sit back, relax, and see what all vegetables I have grown
on the right side of the page.

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